Convocation Address
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH LAW SCHOOL JUNE 10,1967
Graduation ceremonies were probably conceived for the purpose of offering the thanks of a grateful society to all of those who have met the scholastic requirements of their school and...

According to John A. Skinner's story, Beaver Adz came running down the public road to town to get "whites" to go up and stop the fight. Skinner said Beaver Adz was an old coward and did not want any fighting. This was before he lost his eyesight....

a low ebb and could not reach the town. The settlers had fully decided to abandon the place, when President Young came there on a speaking tour and promised the people that if they would remain where they were, the time would come when there would...

Due to shortage of water in the early days, there was little hay raised by the Minersville settlers. To supple-ment the small supply, the ranchers, farmers and stock-men would make regular trips to the Yellow Banks, 20 miles north of Minersville,...

floors. The furniture consisted of rock or adobe fire-places, roughly constructed tables and benches. Bed-steads were considered luxuries and were home-made. The door and window casings were chopped from cottonwood which grew along the creek....

was brought into town in tanks by the railroad and delivered to the families at 5c per bucket, and placed in barrels in the home, by Henry Osborne, water man. When a storm was brewing one could hear the clang of tubs and buckets being put under the...

The third car in Milford was a Stanley Steamer roadster, painted white. It, too, was used on the mail route and was bought by Bill Martin.
One time when Bill Richards was driving this car on the trip, loaded with mail and passengers, it caught fire...

saving weeks in travel and the hard labor of blazing a new trail. They had in mind the moving of the people who would come after them. The route they chose was somewhat shorter than the other trail, with a better grade. Further, the greater part of...

dirt . . . which every man is said to eat in his lifetime. It filled our eyes too, and our ears, and our nostrils. It was in the food; it sprinkled the pancakes; it was in the syrup that we poured over them. Half suffocated were we by it, during...

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Three Score and Ten in Retrospect
weekends at home. It probably was in the fall of those same years I learned that dazzling orange Oriental Poppies should be transplanted while dormant in August. A subscription to the magazine Better Homes...

rock had to he heated by fires in order to break it more easily. Dirt and other material had to he carried to cover the rock that couldn't be hroken. Pretty soon Mr. Parry told Henry he thought he would sooner walk. Henry thought that was pretty...

July 2 1 , 1 9 1 3 . . .Tax levy of 22 mills was adopted. Committee appointed to investigate Barnhurst s p r i n g near Five Lakes, reported that the water r u n s from the Spring into the Creek in Right Hand Canyon across what is known as Coke...

arrived at our camp. We fired the cannon six times in welcome." President Young spent the next few days visiting the settlers and giving comforting instructions to those who wanted to go home. He and others in the party visited the gristmill and...

Family Man
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ran for President of the Associated Boys of East High. The campaign was centered on a western theme, and the candidate painted a big sign on a Coalville cowhide which he stretched on a pole frame. However, the hit of the campaign...

Cedar hIountain at n place called Jones Hollow. They set u p residence and spent much of their time there, as long as the weather would permit. At the same time, they were homesteading a farm in the Cedar City Valley, traveling back and forth....